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Elon Musk Says AI Has The Potential To End Civilization
I think he means “it could end economic and social exploitation and take my fortune — heaven forbid, I’d become just another guy…”
Bruce said the other day, “You had a pretty interesting upbringing growing up in three households.” We were talking about our backgrounds — Bruce growing up in a Philly rowhouse playing ball in the streets, me growing up in an orange grove, rural wilderness, Hollywood, and wealthy Milwaukee suburb. I attended the most racially-mixed Junior High in the U.S. (LeConte Jr. High in Hollywood). I graduated from a gigantic small-town high school in a community made famous by political speech writer, Rhodes Scholar, and former editor of the Harvard Crimson, James Fallows.
It’s Redlands. And my growing up there and being part of a non-elite, longtime family formed the values that I have always lived by. The many, many good people I knew and loved and who knew and loved me, as teachers, friends, pastors, co-workers, neighbors, and colleagues — yeah, it’s “real America.” It’s real life and this is how the overwhelming majority of people live all over the world, every day, all the time, day-in-day-out.
My family knew Dr. Fallows, James Fallows’ father. But by the time you get to be somebody like…
